Summary Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau And Mary Wollstonecraft

In the seventeen hundred, there were different thoughts on what women are expected to do. Such issues are made on the questions of why women were created and what their duties are in society. However, in the twentieth century, there are no longer as any women issues as there was back then. One of the big issues back then was that woman were not to be treated equally to men. This was specifically talked about by two enlightenment thinkers named Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft. They both have strong different beliefs on women and their purpose in society. The enlightenment thinker Rousseau wrote “Duties of Women”. Rousseau believes that women should not be treated equally to men. Men and women have different standards set for them according to Rousseau. Meaning that …show more content…
Women are expected to be weak in order for men to be strong. She specifically said, “ the man should be strong and active; the one must have both the power and the will; it is enough that other should offer little resistance( )”. She is saying that man must be strong and woman must be willing to be weak to allow the man to be strong and not go against the set ways of society. And that men and women must understand each other 's roles in society in order to diminish one another mainly diminishing the women. She also believes that men will always be strong and the dominant one no matter what. Men will always be born to be better than woman no matter what their wealth or societal status is. Rousseau considers this the natural law. Women are to bear children because that is one of their duties along with pleasing men. As Rousseau said …”you are not always bearing children. Granted yet that is their proper